The great unspoken tragedy of the present time is that we have forgotten about the spiritual body of the earth. We have forgotten about the inner worlds. We have been censored. We live in a culture that has very, very efficiently told us that the outer physical world is all that exists. And even when we do spiritual practice and we discover our own spiritual self, there is often a blinker that stops us from then saying ‘this spiritual self must be part of the whole and what is the relationship I have to the whole?’ Once we make a relationship with the spiritual intelligence within creation—with the soul of the world—then we begin the groundwork, we begin the deeper healing.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada – photo by lucky-photographer, bigstockphoto.com
…it is clear that the models [of reality] we have examined are basically in alignment with each other in relation to the following principles that are fundamental for a theory of subtle activism:
1. Beneath the surface appearance of separate objects, there is a universal field of consciousness that is seen as an underlying ground and creative source of everything in existence.
2. Human individuals are embedded in this field, as well as in various kinds of social fields that correspond with different social units (family, city, nation, species, planet, etc.).
3. Individuals both influence these collective fields and are influenced by them.
4. The mechanism by which individual influence occurs can be explained in terms of morphic resonance (the influence of like upon like). [See the work of Rupert Sheldrake.]
~ David Nicol
Stone Circle from 3000 BC, Isle of Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland – photo by AnnekaS, bigstockphoto.com
We’re not going to solve our own problems or the problems of the world the old way. The masculine ways, the ways of the warrior, of violence, don’t work. This is a historic time for women, and for the feminine. Women who welcome and live their own power can help shift the consciousness of the world, to bring out a more positive side of the feminine, to bring a new way of being into the world. Feminine spirit more than ever wants us to acknowledge its presence, wants us to be truthful and honest about where its energy is, and to use it to heal.
~ Sobonfu Somé
Coral Reef, Malenge Lagoon, Indonesia – photo by Fabio Lamanna, bigstockphoto.com
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Mountain Forest – photo by shippee, bigstockphoto.com
The whole of planet Earth
Is a sacred site.
All people are the chosen people,
And the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one.
May we care for each other,
And for the earth, for everything
Relates to everything else.
Feeling this oneness,
May we radiate the light of love
And kindness that all may live in unity and peace.
~ Teach Only Love, Facebook
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley – photo by Bill45, bigstockphoto.com
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
~ Terry Brooks
Elf Garden, Iceland – photo by Ragnhildur Jonsdottir
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Far-Away Galaxy, Hubble Space Telescope – photo from NASA
Time and space. In the desert there is space. Space is the twin sister of time. If we have open space then we have open time to breathe, to dream, to dare, to play, to pray to move freely, so freely, in a world our minds have forgotten but our bodies remember. Time and space. This partnership is holy. In these redrock canyons, time creates space—an arch, an eye, this blue eye of sky. We remember why we love the desert; it is our tactile response to light, to silence, and to stillness.
~ Terry Tempest Williams, “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”
Queen Nefertiti Rock, Arches National Park – photo by BillPerry, bigstockphoto.com
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past, or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Hvitserkur, Vatnsnes Peninsula, Iceland – photo by jojjik, bigstockphoto.com
We cannot assume the sacredness nor spiritual livingness of the earth or accept it as a new ideology or as a sentimentally pleasing idea…We must allow it to shape us, as great spiritual ideas have always shaped those who entertain them…It is an invitation to initiation, to the death of what we have been and the birth of something new.
~ David Spangler
Early Spring Landscape, Yosemite National Park – photo by Andrushko Galyna, bigstockphoto.com
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
~ Arundhati Roy
Sunrise in Crimea – photo by denbelitsky, bigstockphoto.com
We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive
~ Bruce Lipton
Yellowstone Geyser – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
…my being partakes of your being and that of all beings. This goes beyond interdependency—our very existence is relational…therefore, what we do to another, we do to ourselves.
~ Charles Eisenstein
Altai Mountains, Russia – photo by PrimePhoto, bigstockphoto.com
Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of the Earth as the matrix from which life has emerged and on which life depends. Recovering this sense is essential to establishing the framework for mutually enhancing human-Earth relations for the flourishing of life on the planet.
~ Thomas Berry
Monument Valley – photo by tanaonte, bigstockphoto.com
Go outside and don’t go to a special place. Just go into your neighbourhood and repeatedly, over and over again, open your ears and harvest the sounds all around you. Whether those are tree sounds or car sounds or bird sounds. Without judgment, just be present for the physical experience of sounds flowing into our consciousness. Do that over and over again and the trees will befriend you — or come into your consciousness and teach you some of what they’re saying.
~ David George Haskell
Redwood Forest Path – photo by volare2004, bigstockphoto.com
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